Hogg's Weekly Instructor, 5–6 tomai

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J. Hogg, 1847

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44 psl. - There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond...
113 psl. - Her white wings flying — never from her foes — She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife.
300 psl. - In entrails, heart or head, liver or reins, Cannot but by annihilating die ; Nor in their liquid texture mortal wound Receive, no more than can the fluid air...
167 psl. - is given ; and they blow the souls out of one another; and in place of sixty brisk, useful craftsmen, the world has sixty dead carcasses which it must bury and anew shed tears for.
47 psl. - In 1609, six years after the accession of James VI. of Scotland to the throne of England as James I.
96 psl. - I. for a license to collect alms for himself, 'as a recompense for his labour and travel of forty-five years in setting forth the Chronicles of England, and eight years taken up in the Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, towards his relief, now in Ms old age ; having left his former means of living, and only employed himself for the service and good of his country.
195 psl. - And now I say unto you ; Refrain from these men, and let them alone ; for if this counsel or this work, be of men, it will come to nought; but if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it, lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.
167 psl. - And now to that same spot, in the south of Spain, are thirty similar French artisans, from a French Dumdrudge, in like manner wending: till at length, after infinite effort, the two parties come into actual juxtaposition; and Thirty stands fronting Thirty, each with a gun in his hand. Straightway the word "Fire!
127 psl. - It is useful in all places, and at all times ; it is useful in solitude, for it shows a man his way into the world ; it is useful in society, for it shows him his way through the world.
128 psl. - Tact refutes without contradiction, puzzles the .profound without profundity, and without art outwits the wise. Set them together on a race for popularity, pen in hand, and Tact will distance Talent by half the course. Talent brings to market that which is wanted, Tact produces that which is wished for. Talent instructs, Tact enlightens.

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